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in the completion of hundreds of projects, including Oscar nominated
CITIZENFOUR directed by Laura Poitras,
as well as fiction features
like PARIAH and Sundance 2015 premiere THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE
GIRL. Over the last 5 years WMM has helped
more than 120 films reach
completion and channeled more than $17,000,000 to filmmakers.

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NARROWSBURG (FORMERLY THE MYSTERY OF MARIE JOCELYNE)A film by Martha Shane
NARROWSBURG tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a glamorous French film producer and a mafioso-turned-actor who move to a struggling town in upstate New York with dreams of starting a new life. A critical reflection on the power of cinema, and the question of when dreams become delusions, this film follows Richard and Jocelyne Castellano, as well as the local townspeople, as they work to transform Narrowsburg into the “Sundance of the East.”

NATIONAL BIRDA film by Sonia Kennebeck
NATIONAL BIRD follows the harrowing journey of three U.S. military veteran whistleblowers determined to break the silence surrounding America’s secret drone war. Tortured by guilt for their participation in the killing of faceless terror suspects, and despite the threat of being prosecuted, these three veterans offer an unprecedented look inside this secret program to reveal the haunting cost of America’s global drone strikes.

NETIZENS (FORMERLY DISTURB THE UNIVERSE)A film by Cynthia Lowen
NETIZENS — directed by BULLY producer/writer Cynthia Lowen — exposes the proliferation of cyber harassment faced by women, spreading from the web to the most intimate corners of their lives. This feature documentary follows targets of harassment, along with lawyers, advocates, policymakers and others, as they confront digital abuse and strive for equality and justice online.

NO HUMAN INVOLVEDA film by PJ Starr
In 2009 after she was sentenced to more than two years in prison for prostitution, Marcia Powell was locked in a metal cage in the desert sun at an Arizona prison. Four hours later she collapsed in the 107-degree heat, and by day’s end she was dead after being removed from life support by the Department of Corrections. Even though an internal investigation revealed that guards had denied her water and ridiculed her when she pleaded for help, no one was ever charged. The documentary NO HUMAN INVOLVED investigates the circumstances of Marcia’s death, exposing the system that has lead to the death of scores of others in facilities across Arizona, and documents a movement that has formed seeking justice in her name. Marcia’s story motivates audiences to question the system that justified her incarceration, as viewers empathize with her humanity realizing that what happened to her, can happen to anyone.

NO TIME FOR TROUBLEA film by Pamela Page
A South African woman takes her life savings to start a marching band in hopes of turning drug dealers and would-be gang members into drummers and horn players. The band changes not only individual lives, but the entire community. When she runs out of money, help comes from unexpected places.

NO WOMEN NO REVOLUTIONA film by Tamara Taro
Against the background of the Syrian civil war, Hala, a young Arab woman, joins the Kurdish women's movement to flee the IS. Months later, after the liberation of her hometown, she returns back to help build a free society. She encounters resistance not only within the patriarchal traditional society, but also within her own family

OKINAWA DOCUMENTARYA film by Yuki Kokubo
At the southern edge of Japan, construction of a new base has sharply divided the residents of Okinawa, a small island dotted with 32 U.S. military facilities. Tensions boil over when a young woman is brutally murdered by an American contractor. Seen through the eyes of an anti-base activist recently released from solitary confinement, a right-wing indigenous shaman, and a former U.S. Marine, Okinawa Documentary is a meditation on nature, indigenous heritage, and the crippling effects of imperialism.

ON THE DIVIDEA film by Maya Cueva and Leah Galant
The Last Clinics is a documentary series that follows the last remaining abortion clinics throughout the U.S. and the abortion providers, clinic workers, and communities fighting on the front line for reproductive healthcare.

OSCAR'S COMEBACK: FESTIVAL OF THE UNCONQUEREDA film by Lisa Collins and Mark Schwartzburt
The small, 99% white, rural town of Gregory, South Dakota recognizes its most famous citizen--a black man from the early 1900s--through the annual Oscar Micheaux Book & Film Festival. It celebrates the works of Micheaux: homesteader-turned-novelist-turned-filmmaker. Although far from a household name, he is arguably ‘the most prolific indie filmmaker to date’. Micheaux’ visionary idealism, race conscious-raising agenda and his endless struggle to leave his mark are all paralleled by this eclectic, ambitious, fledgling festival on the prairie. A candid, edgy and humorous look at the current state of race and “achieving the American Dream” is told through the eyes, minds and hearts of the Festival scholars, attendees and the very colorful locals of Gregory.

THE PASSIONATE PURSUITS OF ANGELA BOWENA film by Jennifer Abod
The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen is a feature length documentary of “One Woman’s Passionate Pursuits”-Angela Bowen’s life legacy. Stories exploring the complexity of black women’s lives are rarely told; black feminists are seldom heard or seen; and black lesbians are practically invisible. We seldom see how the intersections of race, class, gender, age and sexuality manifests in one women’s life. How did Bowen keep her passions alive, even in the face of poverty and bigotry, and how have her decisions affected the lives of those closest to her?

PAT STEIR: ARTISTA film by Veronica Gonzalez Peña
Pat Steir: Artist is an inspired and beautiful film about a truly groundbreaking woman artist. Pat Steir has opened herself up to Veronica Gonzalez Peña in such unique and various ways that the film functions like a novel, a first person narrative; it is an emotionally moving, deeply personal recounting, a revelation of a self by the artist, while also offering a truly perceptive and original portrait of the great artist in her world.

PERSONHOODA film by Jo Ardinger
As the fight to give constitutional rights to the unborn gains momentum, American women grapple with the unexpected fallout. PERSONHOOD documents the burgeoning personhood movement and the far-reaching impacts of laws designed to protect the fetus. The film enters the lives of women denied their civil rights and criminalized simply by virtue of being pregnant and asks the fundamental question: Is it possible for women to be full and equal members of society if the child in her womb is a separate legal person?

A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORYA film by Rachel Elizabeth Seed
When a young photographer discovers interviews her late mother, a gifted New York City journalist and photographer, made with iconic photographers Henri Cartier-¬Bresson, Lisette Model, W. Eugene Smith and Bruce Davidson during the 1970s, she goes on an revelatory journey to discover her mother’s life and work through their shared professions.

QUEEN OF HEARTS: AUDREY FLACKA film by Deborah Shaffer
86-year-old Audrey Flack has always been a trailblazer -- from her early days as an Abstract Expressionist in the 50s to her successful career as the sole female Photorealist in the 70s to her monumental public sculptures of recent decades. She was the first living woman artist included in Janson’s “History of Art.” Queen of Hearts follows Flack as she takes her work in a brand new direction and reveals her long-term struggles as the mother of an autistic child.

THE RABBIS' INTIFADAA film by Heather Tenzer
Why is a group of Orthodox rabbis supporting Palestinians and calling for Israel's dismantlement? An American Jewish woman struggles to unravel the mystery of their activism.

THE RACIAL TERROR PROJECTA film by Michele Stephenson
The Racial Terror Project is a short film series and VR experience that explores how our present day experiences of racial discrimination reflect a long history of white racial oppression that continues to adapt, leaving fundamental structures unchanged.

RAJADA DALKA - NATION'S HOPEA film by Hana Mire, Produced by Andy Jones and Cynthia Kane
Rajada Dalka is a simple story about Muniro and Suwyes, members of the Somalian Women’s basketball team who dream of success on the international stage. It is about something much bigger: hope, devotion, the role of sport in healing a fractured society, and of the sacrifices needed by people of all ages to overcome discrimination.

REGRETA film by Ione Skye & Heidi Santelli
It is late-1800s in rural Missouri when we meet Mamzelle Aurelle, who is still single by choice and nearing 50. She is self sufficient, content and alone working on her farm when she is unexpectedly left to watch four children for a suffering neighbor. A poetic and subtle feminist allegory about the complexities of sacrifice and independence for women in the modern world.

REN AND LUCAA film by Dan Hunt and Joy E. Reed
Ren and Luca are two transgender siblings;11 year old Ren (M to F), is competing in the Lil' Miss Westy pageant as the first out trans-girl. Her older brother, Luca (F to M), who competed six years ago when he was living as a girl, coaches her on posing, make-up and talent. Moving and unflinching, Ren and Luca challenge fundamental ideas about gender identity and expression as they navigate puberty, bicker, and compete while coming of age.

RENEGADE DREAMERSA film by Karen Kramer
What does it mean to be a renegade and a dreamer in America? Throughout New York City, on subway platforms, open mics, poetry slams, and cafes, young poets and folksingers have disconnected from the model of success expected of them, in much the same way the early Beat writers and protest singers of Greenwich Village did in the ‘50s and '60s. This 90 minute documentary celebrates the rich culture that grew out of a few blocks of Greenwich Village in a few short years…..first by the Beat poets, and later through the folksingers…..and interweaves it with a new generation of radical bohemians…..the young poets and folksingers of today who use their words as weapons to promote social change.

THE REST I MAKE UPA film by Michelle Memran
In 2003, The Rest I Make Up began as a collaboration between two friends— a young journalist (director Michelle Memran) and the widely influential yet largely unknown Cuban-American dramatist and teacher Maria Irene Fornes. Irene had stopped writing and teaching due to dementia; Michelle lacked confidence in her own voice. Together, they discovered a camera could ignite their shared creative process.

REVISITING LA OPERACION (FORMERLY HISTORY OF PUERTO RICAN WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS)A film by Sabrina Aviles
In the early 20th century, propelled by a popular belief in a policy of eugenics, the U.S. proposed sterilization as a means of controlling the overpopulation in Puerto Rico. Over the years, it became a Puerto Rican woman’s preferred choice of “contraception.” It was so routine, it was called simply, la operación (the operation). “Revisiting La Operación” takes a nuanced look at sterilization’s impact on 20th century Puerto Rico by exploring the factors that led women to choose it as a means of birth control.

RIVER OF GRASSA film by Sasha Wortzel
Channeled by the land, the spirit of feminist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, author of The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), this essay-style film recounts the story of the Everglades’ violent past and warns of their possible future. Combining the archival, the present, and the literary, the film examines how Florida’s contemporary landscape of inequity and vulnerability to climate change is historically rooted in the Everglades’ legacies of colonization, drainage and development.

THE ROAR OF A LION CUBA film by Martina Radwan
The Roar of a Lion Cub is an intimate portrait of three Mongolian street children and an American filmmaker determined to change their lives. Shot over six years, the film follows this global makeshift family, providing a rare look into the lasting effects of child poverty and questioning the effectiveness of getting involved within a foreign culture.

ROLL RED ROLL (FORMERLY STEUBENVILLE, OH)A film by Nancy Schwartzman
A whistle-blowing hacker uncovers disturbing social media evidence documenting the gang rape of a teenage girl. The story of a football town divided, "Roll Red Roll" is an immersive mystery thriller examining rape culture in the 21st century. Using the cinematic techniques of a thriller, "Roll Red Roll" uncovers the motivations and complexities of the perpetrators and bystanders and portrays the gritty reality of a small town struggling to heal and rebuild after tragic and divisive events.

SAVING SEA TURTLES: PREVENTING EXTINCTIONA film by Michele Gomes and Jenny Ting
Cold-stunned and virtually lifeless, hundreds of critically endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles are washing up annually in Cape Cod Bay, with 2014 breaking records for the number of stranded turtles. This film exposes the plight of the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle and how marine wildlife specialists and volunteers from New England to Mexico are striving to save these ancient creatures from extinction.

SEAMSA film by Carolyn Shadid Lewis
An American filmmaker’s fascination with parachutes leads her on a historical journey investigating Irish and Northern Irish women’s labor during WWII. An animated personal essay film told through the voices of women who endured and overcame cultural divisions in neutral Ireland, partitioned Northern Ireland, and war-torn Britain, SEAMS is a cautionary tale about the dangers of both nationalism and colonialism. Yet it is also a hopeful look at a culture’s movement from conflict toward peace.

SEND US YOUR BROTHERA film by Nisha Pahuja
An exploration of masculinity in India and how “manhood” is currently being re-defined. We know what it means to be a woman in India, but what does it mean to be an Indian man? Struggling between the old and the new, tradition and modernity, India’s sons are starting to question who and what they are. At the heart of the film are men--difficult, violent, fearful men and the men who are fighting to change them. The battlefield this time, is masculinity itself.

SHIVANI (FORMERLY DOLLY)A film by Jamie Dobie
Shivani "Dolly" Cherukuri is one of the best archers India has ever seen. In the shadow of her deceased brother (famed Indian archer Lenin Cherukuri), and on the banks of the sacred Krishna River, in March 2015 Dolly set a national record and made headlines across the globe. It was nine days before her third birthday.

SISTER AIMEEA film by Samantha Buck & Marie Schlingmann
In 1926, the world’s most famous evangelist, Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, fakes her own death in order to run away to Mexico with her married lover and radio engineer Kenny. Once on the road, and equipped with new identities, they find themselves chased by the very persona Aimee so desperately tried to kill. They hire Rey, a former Mexican Soldadera turned smuggler, to help them cross the border, as detectives, the world, and Aimee herself all pose the question, “Who is Sister Aimee Semple McPherson?”

SISTERSA film by Kathryn Smith Pyle
SISTERS tells the story of racial discrimination by one of the most exclusive private clubs in America: college sororities. A group of sorority sisters, generations apart, expose a web of secret deals and collusion in the historically white Greek system.

SO SICKA film by Sini Anderson
So Sick, a new documentary from the director of The Punk Singer, follows the lives of eleven feminist artists with late-stage Lyme disease. Told by the government and the medical establishment that their devastating disease does not exist, these women are fighting for their lives. As they tell their stories in intimate video diaries and interviews, the film asks crucial questions about the obstacles women face as they seek treatment. So Sick is a rallying cry from the front lines of an epidemic.

STERILIZEDA film by Anne Munger and Zoe Hamilton
Sterilized is a film about a decades-long, mass violation of reproductive rights in India. As the country grapples with its large and growing population, women have been caught in the crossfire - sterilized in horrific conditions at the hands of the government. Through the narrative of Mitilesh, a young mother who undergoes sterilization, the film reveals how reproductive health policies affect the country’s most vulnerable, situating their histories in the larger context of population control.

STILL WE RISEA film by Molly Raskin and Ben Niles
After 14 years of a brutal civil war the West African nation of Liberia is still rebuilding, but struggling against a silent and devastating adversary: trauma. For a population of more than 4 million there is only one practicing psychiatrist and one psychiatric hospital until now. Against extraordinary odds, a group of 21 newly certified mental health workers are setting out to heal widespread psychological trauma. STILL WE RISE follows these young men and women on a remarkable journey of healing, hope and promise for a broken nation.

STOLEN: LIVES IN EXILEA film by Risa Morimoto and Diana Chiawen Lee
Hua Ze is from China. Mehrangiz Kar is from Iran. Both women are human rights activists. Both were jailed for their work. As they continue to fight for human rights, both must live in exile.

STREETCAR TO KOLKATA (WORKING TITLE)A film by Kavery Kaul
In the 1890s, the first men from India in the U.S. found a welcome in the African-American community. They married African-American women in what has become a missing chapter in the narrative of intercultural ties. A descendant of this vibrant cultural tangle makes the journey back to India. She crosses deep divides of faith and culture to discover family a world apart and the truth in personal history.

STRIKE A ROCK (FORMERLY MAMA MARIKANA)A film by Aliki Saragas
In 2014, Primrose Sonti, an unemployed woman from Marikana is elected into South African Parliament as a member of a new opposition party, the EFF. Through her journey, Mama Marikana tells the untold story of the women of Marikana, who made their existence and struggles public during the Marikana massacre. Spanning over three years, this is an experiential and social-justice documentary of how women fight everyday, of rebuilding a community, of rags to riches and of having a voice.

SUNDAYS AT CAFÉ TABACA film by Karen B. Song
“Sundays at Café Tabac” is a documentary feature film which investigates and celebrates early ‘90s lesbian culture, the birth of the “celesbian,” and “lesbian chic” in downtown New York City, as expressed at the infamous Café Tabac on Sunday nights in the East Village. The film pays tribute to a unique moment in New York and LGBTQ history on the verge of profound irreversible changes in an era of unprecedented lesbian visibility in mainstream media.

THE TALKING CURE: A CENTURY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AMERICAA film by Ann Johnson Prum and produced by Anne C. Dailey
This documentary film presents the history of American psychoanalysis, examines the reasons for its spectacular success as well as its decline, and explores the surprising possibilities for its future. Psychoanalysis rose to prominence as one of the most important intellectual developments of the twentieth century. Yet this towering force now hovers close to extinction. What accounts for its stunning rise and equally stunning descent? Do psychoanalytic ideas and treatment have any place in the twenty-first century’s era of brain science?

A TOWERING TASK - A PEACE CORPS DOCUMENTARYA film by Alana DeJoseph
The title of the Peace Corps’ blue print, the “A Towering Task” memo, was taken from JFK: “The problems . . . are towering and unprecedented - and the response must be towering and unprecedented as well.” A Towering Task takes a look back at the history, a look at its current state, and a look forward at the relevance of an agency whose story acts as a prism to today’s toughest questions – about service, community, social and environmental justice.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCESA film by Hannah Jayanti
“Truth or Consequences” is a documentary about a small desert town with a storied past and an uncertain future. In 1950, the residents voted to rename themselves after the most popular radio show, Truth or Consequences. 60 years later, the same optimism and frustration is playing out as the world’s first commercial Spaceport is built 30 miles outside of town. Drawn to the remoteness of the New Mexican desert, both the residents and the Spaceport seek the freedoms of isolation and the age old promise of the frontier.

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